Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers
Among her many talents Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a crime fiction critic, reading and evaluating books weekly for the Sunday Times from 1933 into 1935. Seeking to make Sayers’ insights and observations available to the wider reading public, the Dorothy L....
Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is familiar to me as a fine writer of historical adventure. I have read nearly all of his Saxon Chronicles set from 866 A.D. to 937 A. D. His stories about the Napoleonic Wars are told through the eyes of British soldier Richard Sharpe. I was not...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Body Behind the Bar by Cecil Freeman Gregg
British author Cecil Freeman Gregg (1898-1960) was a chartered secretary and accountant like fellow Golden Age author and contemporary Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973) who wrote under the name Richard Hull. Gregg published 42 mysteries between 1928 and 1960, with two...